i have been lucky i reckon,,ive not had one person try to scam me since i have started the whole e waste thing....keep in mind i have only been at it a year...i started out with friends and family as my suppliers...and slowly but surely word got out...now some times i wake up with a nice pile of stuff in front of my building, and i dont even know who dropped it off..
after friends and family i started doing every auction that was close enough for me to drive to and not lose my hind end on the gas money side...then i just done the same thing i did with regular metal many years ago...i thought of places that used computers and started asking them about there scrap...i got alot of ," well i already got a guy" at first....but after i had some cards made ( free of charge thanks to my sister who works at a college ) i started having luck...
i now get all the used electronics from my local courthouse and one of the local library's....i had my sister print me up some legally worded papers guaranteeing i would destroy all hard drives and any thing containing any private information that i would be removing from a business....after doing those two things i now have 3 places that give me lots of stuff a couple times a year...
i also can go to one of my local junk yards and i am allowed to strip anything i want in the yard for 20 to 30 cents per pound...i tried this with 3 yards total and it only worked at 1...the other 2 places only let me do it once or twice...one of them even tried to do escrap there selves after asking me a bunch of questions about what i was doing....they failed miserably though. they were buying all circuit boards for 45 cents per pound..they quit buying after selling there first load. i think they bought to much low grade for high prices not knowing what they were doing...
anyhow my best advice is, friends and family, auctions, junk yards, and also get business cards and start talking to librarys and other offices and places that use a lot of computers
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